To many it would seem that governments are beyond using “false flags” on their own citizens. It is the case that countries have used covert agents to create terrorist activities and incidents that they would later blame on organizations that the government did not like. One such instant is the case of Operation Gladio.

After World War 2, NATO decided to keep some covert agents in NATO countries. The covert agents would be supported by CIA and MI6. The job of these agents was to make sure that communist organizations did not gain power in these countries.

The controversy over these covert groups was that NATO would use their covert groups to cause terrorist incidents that they would later blame on communist organizations. The terrorist activities would hurt, damage, and kill the citizens of the NATO countries, but the casualties were acceptable collateral damage to make sure that the support for the government security was increased and that communist organizations were hated by the citizens.